by Senadheera Jayakody

Created on: January 24, 2010

The Ideapad Y530 is a multimedia notebook from Lenovo with great features for those who are looking for true multimedia experience. The significant features of the Ideapad Y530 are surround speakers and subwoofer, HDMI out, touch-sensitive media controls, and a frameless display panel. Also its price is $999 and this is very competitive price compared to many of its rivals.

1. Specifications of the Lenovo Ideapad Y530

Ideapad notebook comes with Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit) with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor P7350 (2GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB) and 2GB DDR2 System Memory (2 x 1GB). It is a great system for providing an efficient work in a really less time even with the latest software that consumes a lot of system resources. The memory can be increased up to 4GB. LCD display is 15.4’’ with glossy widescreen and the screen resolution is 1280x800.

Graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 9300M with 256MB VRAM and it also includes 250GB SATA Hard Drive. You may enjoy true sound quality provided by the sub-woofer included with Lenovo IdeaPad Y530. Other features of IdePad are Dual Layer CD/DVD recordable player, 1.3 megapixel integrated camera, 10/100 Ethernet, and Intel 5100AGN. The weight is just 6.65 lb including the battery. Battery is a 6-cell 5200mAh 57Wh battery. The warranty is one year for the notebook and one year for the battery. With these configurations price is just $999. Therefore it is well worth to buy the IdeaPad Y530 when considering the features provided.

2. Build and Design of the Lenovo Ideapad Y530

It is similar to ThinPad notebooks when considering the key design. The design is quite nice with a great color scheme. Once closed it is rarely flex even under a relatively strong pressure. It is very easy to access for upgrading of system parts like RAM, wireless card, processor, and hard drive.

3. Display of Idepad Y530

The WXGA display panel of the Lenovo Y530 is rated as average. It possesses a good contrast and bright backlighting. Vertical and horizontal viewing angles are limited. Sometimes these limits may consider as a security feature. Vertical viewing angles are generally narrow and colors are clear before the distortion. But the horizontal angles are better when viewing.

4. Keyboard and Touchpad of the IdeaPad

The Keyboard of the IdeaPad Y530 is designed similar to the ThinkPad series with several changes. Once difference is there is only one row of function keys unlike two rows of function keys in ThinkPad notebooks. The keyboard is very comfortable to use but the sound, when pressed a key may be a bit louder.      

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